GOP Now Favors Censure In Sex Scandals...
The South Carolina Republican Party has formally voted to censure Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) over his extra-marital affair and his disappearance from the state -- an interesting development, the closer one looks at it.
Of the 41 members of the state GOP's executive committee, a bare majority of 22 voted to censure him. Ten members voted to ask him to resign, and nine others in fact voted in support of him.
Funny thing: Sanford voted to impeach Bill Clinton over a sex scandal in 1998, and at the time a whole lot of Republicans said that a mere censure of Clinton was insufficient -- only impeachment or a resignation would truly satisfy the moral and legal problems at hand.
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It's not funny, it's hypocritical. But it's also no surprise that the GOP is full of hypocritical, lying, blowhards.
What IS funny? That a Republican Governor is using a sex scandel to cover up his gross irresponsibility in going AWOL for a week.
July 7, 2009 9:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is amusing to recall that MoveOn started off as the "Censure & Move On" movement.
July 7, 2009 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is a surprise? Effing hypocrites.
July 7, 2009 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is hilarious to watch their actions against their own in similar circumstances, the hypocrisy is fabulous. It ruins their credibility in the off chance of another large scale democratic sex scandal, which lately have been outnumbered by republicans by a ratio of about 7:1. It is definitely hurting their image as the party of family values. Really the D side should adopt a STFU and let them eat their own approach and just stir the pot enough to keep it on the surface while they self-immolate.
July 7, 2009 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
No! Not the dreaded censure! Anything but that! Have mercy on the poor guy. Hasn't he suffered enough?
You realize, of course, that this is going on his permanent record.
July 7, 2009 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is it possible that Sanford and Palin are friends and she's doing her "bat dung crazy" routine to buy him a little breathing room?
July 7, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
They'll give Sanford and Sin a break for the adultery because he's one of them, boys will be boys, men have to relieve the stress of responsibility, wocka wocka wocka, and he has compared himself to King David. You're safe if you can quote the Bible in the land of cotton. The dereliction of duty doesn't concern them either. Who else could disappear like that from a job and not be fired? Did Sanford think he was Don Draper in "Madmen", who disappeared on a business trip and got away with it?
July 7, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well admittedly there's no perjury charge mixed in here.
July 7, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
is everyone still just missing the point, or shouting loud trying to drive it away? it doesn't really matter, to the world, country, state, who the man chooses to sleep with. he could mate with a sheep and still do a good job as governor. maybe. as long as he was present, at his workpost, doing the job.
the point is, he was not present and on the job for a full week. 7 days awol. comprende awol? some situations, people go to jail for that. or get shot. course, i'm not suggesting anything so drastic.
just suggesting that people need to focus on the issue that matters, and encourage the folks in positions of responsibility to focus on the issue that matters. playing the sex scandal game just allows the continuation of real, important, dangerous bad government.
July 7, 2009 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink